Understanding educational inequalities in sports participation through structurally based resources and individual agency – a sequential mediation analysis

Table 3 Path estimates for sequential mediation SEM: Model 1

Dependent variable	Independent variable	Estimate	p-value
Structurally based resources (2014)	Educational level	0.175	0.000***
	Age	0.013	0.000***
	Female	-0.179	0.000***
	Born in the Netherlands	0.055	0.420
Individual agency (2021)	Educational level	0.058	0.095*
	Structurally based resources (2014)	0.096	0.000***
	Age	0.000	0.980
	Female	0.021	0.412
	Born in the Netherlands	-0.090	0.099*
Sports participation (2021)	Educational level	0.058	0.094*
	Structurally based resources (2014)	0.115	0.000***
	Individual agency (2021)	0.051	0.103
	Age	-0.005	0.000***
	Female	0.026	0.367
	Born in the Netherlands	0.117	0.033**

Reported estimates are statistically significant at *α = 0.1, **α = 0.05, ***α = 0.01
Model fit statistics: Chi-square p-value = 0.010, Robust RMSEA = 0.047

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